I don't see the world as something divided between right and left.

Until I was about eighteen, yes [I didn't want to get married]. But not because I felt like a suffragette, but because I wanted to devote all my energies to the struggle to free India. Marriage, I thought, would have distracted me from the duties I'd imposed on myself.

In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father.

Do you know why I won the last elections? It was because the people liked me, yes, because I had worked, yes, but also because the opposition had behaved badly toward me. And do you know why I won this war? Because my army was able to do it, yes, but also because the Americans were on the side of Pakistan.

Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life.